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What Contractors Need to Know About Alternative Funding for Infrastructure
Learn the basics and understand the risks associated with such approaches.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 16, 2012 -
Measured Mile: How Contractors Can Recover for Lost Productivity
The burden of proof is on contractors when they want more for changes, differing site conditions or other delays.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 14, 2012 -
Minnesota Indemnification Case Typifies Problems Between Primes, Subs
One court agreed a sub need not pay for a damaged sewer line, but an appeals court said it did.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 13, 2012 -
AIA Introduces Seven New Contract Documents to 'Documents-On-Demand' Service
The newly posted documents include owner-contractor and owner-architect pieces.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
Environmental Service Company to Pay for Lead-Law Violations
Poor training for contractors who took its courses is part of the complaint.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 7, 2012 -
OSHA Offers Free Health and Safety Consulting for Small Businesses
The government says that what its consultants tell owners is confidential and non-punitive.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 3, 2012 -
N.C. Contractor Opts for Chapter 11
Cox Schepp Inc. of Charlotte says it is going to get back to the basics that made it succeed.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 1, 2012 -
More Bank Regs Likely Leading to Less Loaning
Opponents of international and U.S. regulatory changes argue that they will cut capital markets trading and tighten lending.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 1, 2012 -
Federal Legislation Would Set Five-Year Funding for Highways, Transit
A GOP bill would authorize $260 billion for highway, transit and safety work and, backers say, cut red tape.
By Ron Gallagher • Jan. 31, 2012 -
Illinois AG sues S&P
The state attorney general claims Standard & Poor’s gave fraudulently high ratings to risky mortgage-backed investments.
By Ron Gallagher • Jan. 31, 2012 -
Can Obama Push FHFA Into Loan Write-Downs, Forbearance?
Looking to kick lose more lending, the proposal is for the taxpayers to push some loans above water.
Jan. 31, 2012 -
Leading with LEED
USGBC argues that everyone wins with public buildings that are efficient and last longer.
By Ron Gallagher • Jan. 31, 2012 -
Obama Creates New Unit Within Financial Fraud Task Force
Skepticism has greeted President Obama's creating an invetigative unit to look at mortgage bundling.
Jan. 30, 2012 -
AGC Knocking Project Labor Agreements Out of Federal Bids
Associated General Contractors says it is asking the Navy to drop wage agreements in three projects.
Jan. 30, 2012 -
Roofer’s Fatal Plunge Demonstrates Need for Fall-Prevention Regulations
A safety advocate says it is hard to get workers to use precautions for "only a minute" work.
Jan. 27, 2012 -
New Firm-Fixed-Price Rules on Federal Contracts Impact Construction Industry
The industry will have to watch for devils in new details when bidding on government work.
Jan. 27, 2012 -
April Meeting for Contractors, Federal Workers on Contract Rules
The conference, organized by Associated General Contractors, will be April 16-19 in Washington.
Jan. 27, 2012 -
Fight Awaits New Mortgage-Fraud Unit
It may bolster civil settlements, but criminal liability is a hard standard to meet.
Jan. 26, 2012 -
Obama Taps Schneiderman for Mortgage Task Force
New York's attortney general is among those picked to investigate conduct that led to the housing-driven recession.
Jan. 25, 2012 -
Oregon Tries Top-Down Construction on Bridge
Restrictions on in-water work in salmon rivers prompted the new approach by the state DOT.
Jan. 24, 2012 -
ABC Leads Protest of NLRB Appointments
The group's Coalition for a Democratic Workplace charges that Obama appointments were unconstitutional.
Jan. 24, 2012 -
FHA Toughening Mortgage Standards
The FHA's move comes despite complaints that tough lending is hampering a homebuilding recovery.
Jan. 23, 2012 -
Industry Challenges Connecticut’s Suit Over Defective Construction Work
The industry wants Connecticut's Supreme Court to keep the state from using a 13th-century legal doctrine about defective work on state jobs.
Jan. 19, 2012 -
Power REITs Say M&A Will Ramp Up
The predictions came at the Practising Law Institute's "REIT and Real Estate M&A and Restructurings" conferenc.
Jan. 19, 2012 -
NYC Zoning Laws Grow Up
At 50, zoning laws in middle age are hot, the cougar of urban regulatory devices, more flexible and dynamic than ever.
Jan. 18, 2012
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